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Nullius addictus iurare in verba magistri, quo me cumque rapit tempestas, deferor hospes.

Climate Catastrophe

Posted on July 12, 2019 by a foolhardy florilegium

I read reports, I see what’s there; the human race just doesn’t care. I know we’re fucked; impending doom is written clear in so much gloom, so to battle on against the foe is the only place that’s left to … Continue reading →

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The Sky Gods awaken

Posted on July 11, 2019 by a foolhardy florilegium

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Wake up Australia

Posted on July 10, 2019 by a foolhardy florilegium

We’re looking down the barrel of a great big bloody gun; we’ve gone and made an enemy of our old friend the Sun. Yet still we destroy and plunder, committing nature crimes but we don’t seem to panic in what … Continue reading →

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the brightness

Posted on July 8, 2019 by a foolhardy florilegium

When minds are filled with hatred, life is unending pain it festers in the deepest heart and drives good folk insane. And when there’s nothing else in there to find it becomes who we are; a small and festered mind. … Continue reading →

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The Light

Posted on July 7, 2019 by a foolhardy florilegium

There is a light, I know it’s there; a brilliance where truth is laid bare and the lies that we all live upon cannot be found – are somehow gone. I wonder if I’ll ever see that light I know … Continue reading →

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Beauty

Posted on July 7, 2019 by a foolhardy florilegium

Though beauty is hard to define it lives in your heart, lives in mine. ‘Tis beauty that we always seek when hearts are heavy, Spirit’s meak. So always see what’s truly there for beauty resides everywhere. The artist is the … Continue reading →

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Tinkering

Posted on July 7, 2019 by a foolhardy florilegium

Tinkering at the edges of a planet doomed to die; deciding that it’s all too hard – so just why should we try. I watch another ‘Movement’ (a thing oft of the bowels) rising to the greatest heights – “There … Continue reading →

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BE THE SOLUTION!

Posted on June 28, 2019 by a foolhardy florilegium

The planet’s fucked, we’re all gonna die lest to apathy we say goodbye. Our days of basking in false wealth ain’t lookin’ good for the planet’s health. So suck it up folks, young and old; time to come in out … Continue reading →

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Sacred Clown

Posted on June 26, 2019 by a foolhardy florilegium

Is that a boundary I see or a new vista just for me; a new world where I can be free. Seems to me it’s all the same; at end of day, what’s in a name. Mayhaps it is the … Continue reading →

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The Elders of the Human Race

Posted on June 25, 2019 by a foolhardy florilegium

At times I think it’s all in vain; I feel the chill – depressions rain. The soaking downpour of despair that says “There is no hope out there.” I see the world – a bloody shame; how could we do … Continue reading →

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A revolution of our mind!

Posted on June 23, 2019 by a foolhardy florilegium

For 40 years I’ve heard the beat as people march along the street demanding freedom from the chains with little hope and fewer gains. We did our time, we stopped a war, the environment and so much more. But each … Continue reading →

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On Plans

Posted on June 19, 2019 by a foolhardy florilegium

For many years I pondered just how life could have been if I’d been a bit smarter and the obstacles I’d seen. But through it all I blundered on not taking any trail; just wandering, no goal in sight – … Continue reading →

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A Presidential Press Release

Posted on June 19, 2019 by a foolhardy florilegium

Oh no! There’s storm clouds in the sky! I wonder if that means we’ll die? Oh wait, it’s just the oil fields burning; the Middle East’s democracy learning. Soon  they will learn to toe the line, then everything will be … Continue reading →

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Wings

Posted on June 2, 2019 by a foolhardy florilegium

Where will we be, what will it bring? Tomorrow is an unknown thing. All a body can do is try to do their best and just get by. But also reach out to the stars, out past the moon and … Continue reading →

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Stop and Feel

Posted on June 1, 2019 by a foolhardy florilegium

When hearts bind hard within our chest they never let our Spirits rest. They needs some peace so it can see that place where fear just cannot be; that place where Spirit’s fly on high and show us that we … Continue reading →

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